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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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